I have built an atlas stand, not entirely unlike this one:
<http://www.thomasmoser.com/library/lib.products.view.php?from=cat&product_id=273>
_except_ that instead of a solid front, it has another shelf. Now, the
problem comes in when I need to attach the top. My default choice is
brass L-brackets, but it'll a pain to get my arm in between the shelf
and the top to get the screws in.
So I'm wondering if there is an easier way. One thing that comes to mind
would be a twist-lock mechanism. Think of a washer that has been ground
to make one side flat. I could screw this to the top, put the top on,
and then simply twist the washers so that the un-flattened part holds in
a groove. I hope you get the picture.
Anyway, before I go an make something like this, does anyone know where
I can find something like this?
Or does anyone have any other ideas for attaching a top when the space
immediately below the top is tight?
Thanks,
Greg
This might be my preferred method. Its a figure 8 fastener.
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&offerings_id=786
Dave
"G. Lewin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have built an atlas stand, not entirely unlike this one:
>
>
<http://www.thomasmoser.com/library/lib.products.view.php?from=cat&product_i
d=273>
>
> _except_ that instead of a solid front, it has another shelf. Now, the
> problem comes in when I need to attach the top. My default choice is
> brass L-brackets, but it'll a pain to get my arm in between the shelf
> and the top to get the screws in.
>
> So I'm wondering if there is an easier way. One thing that comes to mind
> would be a twist-lock mechanism. Think of a washer that has been ground
> to make one side flat. I could screw this to the top, put the top on,
> and then simply twist the washers so that the un-flattened part holds in
> a groove. I hope you get the picture.
>
> Anyway, before I go an make something like this, does anyone know where
> I can find something like this?
>
> Or does anyone have any other ideas for attaching a top when the space
> immediately below the top is tight?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:42:36 -0400, "G. Lewin" <[email protected]> wrote:
I can't think of the name of the locking device, but decided to buy an
on-sale TV stand [sorry guys ...it was cheaper than the cost of the
material], that was the put-it-together-yourself variety. There was
some sort of expansion screw that solidly fatened the particle-board
verticals to the horizontals, so they have to work in solidwood even
better I'd think. They must (i) have a name, and (ii) be available
for general use.
Another option is to fasten the brass L-brackets to the top near the
front and back [measure carefully], then fasten those with a power
driver. You just have to get the driver into the space, not your arm.
Bill.
>I have built an atlas stand, not entirely unlike this one:
>
><http://www.thomasmoser.com/library/lib.products.view.php?from=cat&product_id=273>
>
>_except_ that instead of a solid front, it has another shelf. Now, the
>problem comes in when I need to attach the top. My default choice is
>brass L-brackets, but it'll a pain to get my arm in between the shelf
>and the top to get the screws in.
>
>So I'm wondering if there is an easier way. One thing that comes to mind
>would be a twist-lock mechanism. Think of a washer that has been ground
>to make one side flat. I could screw this to the top, put the top on,
>and then simply twist the washers so that the un-flattened part holds in
>a groove. I hope you get the picture.
>
>Anyway, before I go an make something like this, does anyone know where
>I can find something like this?
>
>Or does anyone have any other ideas for attaching a top when the space
>immediately below the top is tight?